Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Kavanagh (Irish politician)


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 17:40, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Peter Kavanagh (Irish politician)

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Elected at a local level only, so does not satisfy WP:POLITICIAN. The question then is whether being a founder of Pop-Up Gaeltacht is sufficient to give him notability. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 16:38, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 16:38, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 16:38, 9 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. County council is not a level of office that guarantees inclusion in Wikipedia on its face — to be notable for that, he would have to show some really strong evidence that he can be seen as a special case of significantly greater notability than the norm for local politicians. People also aren't automatically notable just for running as candidates in elections they did not win, and neither are single-market local radio hosts notable just because they have staff profiles on the self-published websites of their own employers. So the question is indeed whether he can be considered notable as founder of an organization — that's still not an automatic notability freebie in the absence of a WP:GNG-worthy volume of reliable source coverage about his work in that role, but the only sources here that are "covering" him in that context are (a) a newspaper op-ed where he's the bylined author rather than the subject, and (b) a Q&A interview in which he's the speaker and not the thing being spoken about. So no, those sources aren't making him notable for that either. Bearcat (talk) 06:50, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per Bearcat's very persuasize argument as to why notability is not met.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:24, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - a quick dig around shows nothing more. Maybe his project grows, or he wins through at some point, but while I've seen questionable cases in the last year, this ain't one of them. Indeed some local councillors stand out, but most don't, and of itself, the office is not enough, for good reason. SeoR (talk) 21:21, 13 March 2021 (UTC)


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